It’s an unsettling feeling that many know all too well: the foreboding suspicion that someone, or something, is behind you. That feeling has morphed over the years into a trope, one that became a mainstay in horror, and for good reason. But how effective can that concept be when employed time and time again? When the original Insidious film swept the horror world in 2010, director-writer duo James Wan and Leigh Whannell showed audiences that the trope could be a strategic smoking gun for scares that would become iconic within the genre. Thirteen years and several installments later, Insidious: The Red Door returns to The Further and brings a smart and impressive use of the franchise’s best trope along with it.
